...very interesting and exciting, tangible evidence that you are in fact the commissioner of baseball," Manfred said.HowardSmith, MLB's senior vice president of licensing, made him sign "Robert D. Manfred Jr." over and over and over with...

...District and ultimately voted to deny the request to take out the buildings for new development.L.V. Perkins and HowardSmith voted against the denial, having earlier proposed compromises.The city's Planning and Zoning Department staff recommended...

...to a different use of a building vacant for at least a year. "We had an election to have standards or not," said HowardSmith, chairman of the review board, which reviews projects in the district that runs roughly from South Washington Street...